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  • image SM Adam volume 1/172

Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/172

Purpose

[2] Preliminary designs for a cottage, c.1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Upper: Variant of SM Adam volume 10/95 with the addition of a gated screen with piers and arched openings. There is a pencil detail of the opening and plan below Lower: Variant of SM Adam volume 10/95 comprising three rooms arranged around a central staircase and loggia entrance. The rear room contains bay windows. There are piers to the left of the house. Rooms include a sitting room and bed room

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(In pencil) [_] Wemyss / Sitting room / Bed / [_ _ _ _] room

Signed and dated

  • c.1791
    datable to c.1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (325x287)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 15
King, 2001, pp. 253-255, 258
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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